Andy Stanley Quotes

The strength of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders.

Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.

There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.

Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership.

Leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

We have good soldiers but crummy generals.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.

Putin is a better leader than Obama, because Obama's not a leader, so he's certainly doing a better job than Obama is, and that's all.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned, it comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned.

Leadership is a role you have to earn in order to be effective.

You don't become an effective leader by default.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.

We have had imperfect leaders in the past, and we will have imperfect leaders in the future.